Teacher Colleen Ritzer Killed by Student in Danvers, Mass.

A math teacher at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Colleen Ritzer has been found murdered. Police have arrested and charged a 14-year-old student in this unspeakable crime. The 24-year-old victim was found in the woods adjacent to the school.

Scroll down the page to see 9 pictures of Colleen Ritzer, who is from the city of Andover. Police started looking for her after she failed to return home last night.

Initially, police found blood in a bathroom located in the high school. They eventually found her body nearby. The student they have charged with murder also went missing yesterday but has since been located.

We send our sincere condolences to this teacher’s loved ones and we hope they find peace.

Here are the aforementioned images. To view the entire gallery, click on the right arrow. (Update: now with 16 pics.)

Losing this person cost so many lives, so much. I suspect if I’d had a math teacher like she seemed to be, that I wouldn’t have developed the insecurity of believing I was less capable than my peers that affected my entire academic decision making process. There was no one-on-one time with those teachers to isolate where I was going wrong, and I took their reluctance to mean I must not be able and that they know it’s a waste of time. Looking back it seems ridiculous, and I’d blamed myself 100% for not being better at it. In retrospect I’d see the fault as 50/50, since I still could have always pushed harder and sought that education elsewhere until I comprehended. But she seems like the teacher that could have found me in a field of science years later due to my natural fascination for subjects, but due to utter lack of faith in my capacity to understand maths, getting started down a scientific/mathematical career was never an option. The world is desperate for what she took joy in giving, sharing knowledge and a passion for the subject in infectious ways only genuinely gifted teachers possess. Those teachers are the rarest of commodities. This whole planet needed her. As close as she seems to be with her bro and sis, I cannot imagine that emptiness now. Inspired by Ms Ritzer’s passion, I’m going to start math tutoring and see if I can’t get myself to where I should have been in college.. then maybe take a single class once I’m prepared and see what happens next.. It’s not much, but I feel like this would be an appropriately tributive sort of response and a way for me to deal the sadness and frustration news like this causes. Energy is energy, it all has to go somewhere so might as well do something productive.

Jim Radburn

It is amazing to read the posts by the pathetic, psychotic, braindead radical right wing cracked teanut dunces here. They don’t even mention the mass murders by their NRA controlled party at other schools, done by non-blacks.

Carl Robbins

Many serious people who have great experience in these matters say the black males are fully grown and sexually mature at 14……Moreover, when this loving beautiful woman smiled and treated this individual “the same as all kids” she was sowing the seeds of her own demise as he was forming a different idea of what was going to happen. This liberal brainwashing where a girl is taught to ignore her instincts and believe that these feelings are her own inner “prejudice” are a central tenant to “diversity studies”. I returned to day college at Umass after almost ten years after my associates degree, and was initially stunned to see the active race business that masquerades as a legitimate study. Moreover, social promotion and a codified a full grade increase across the board under a program called “AID” available to minority students , (but curiously not asians) left me very disgusted. Furthermore, sex crimes and allegations involving blacks were always very “hush hush” I understand that has changed on many campuses recently after some horrific crimes.

Jim Radburn

Isn’t yo mammy calling you boy. Yo roadkill possum is almost cooked up. Duncebrain, it is time to go back home to yo mammy’s shack, sit out on the back porch on yo one legged rocker, put yo corn cob pipe in yo toothless mouth, stick a plug o Red Man up yo axx, strum yo washboard and make sure yo daddy’s moonshine don’t overcook.

If you hurry, you can still make tonight’s Klan meetin’ where yo toothless buddies and the rest of yo braindead repuke dunces will be discussin’ the latest advances in anthrax and ricin spreadin.

Maybe tomorrow, you can take yo toothless braindead teanut buddies and attack some abortion clinic.

Mike in Montreal

While I never knew Colleen reading all those positive comments about her really make me wish I did … It’s too bad that Massachusetts does not have the death penalty because I definitely would like this killer executed for what he did! We really don’t need scum like this on our planet!

Guest Jones

Fact is a life was lost. Fact is a black boy killed a white Lady. When George Killed Travon there was a different song being sung. This Ladies civil rights were violated. The civil right of life.